Retest Unit 1

The President of the United States’ schema includes:

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An inference is the same as ...

Read the following passage from the story, The Lottery. Based on the text, which stage of plot is this part of the story probably from?

The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 2th. but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.

In literature, the word drama refers to:

Evidence is:

Rising action is the part of the story when:

Read the passage from the Tell Tale Heart and answer the questions.

Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was opening the door little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea, and perhaps he heard me, for he moved on the bed suddenly as if startled. Now you may think that I
drew back -- but no. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened through fear of robbers), and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.

From this passage, we can infer that the killer felt:

The evidence that we need to infer the killer felt ______ is the line that reads:

“No, he doesn’t,” I told them. At recess, one of them threw sand in my eyes while the others pounded on my head with open palms. I didn’t see Chuy banging on my head, but I didn’t see much of anything with my eyes shut.
I rubbed the sand out of my eyes all the way to the principal’s office, but when he pressed me about who had done this to me and why, I didn’t say a word. I knew that tattling was wrong. Even about this.

After reading this selection, you can conclude that the main character…

Here in Brownsville, TX, the streets are filled with people driving long distances to work, and do their shopping online. Odd how just across the border, only some forty-five minutes away, people still walked to work, there was still a milkman, a water truck brought drinking water to each house, and fruit and vegetable vendors drove or walked up and down streets selling their wares.

You can tell that the person who wrote this paragraph believes that…

But I am Mexican. I could not – strike that – would not back down. I would do the deed. It was a question of manhood. ¿Macho o mujeringa? ¡Pues macho!

Jorge screamed “¡Aiee!” and jumped. He swung like a trapeze artist at the Circus Vargas. I whistled. Then I was one step closer to having to jump.
Ricky stepped up. “We’ll see you down there, primo,” he said.

“Yeah – down there.” I forced a smile.

By the end of this selection, the reader can conclude that the main character:

Or so I thought. When I returned from the doctor’s that evening, arm encased in a cast, my cousins couldn’t stop talking about it. “Y, que padre,” they said, caressing my cast. “A cast, Rey. You know,” said Jorge, “that’s the best. It’s better than a scar. I wish I had one. How does it feel?” It was my badge of courage. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. I just knew that Chuy and the guys at school would look at my cast and wonder how I had busted my arm. Had I fought a gang? Had I fallen from a motorbike? Or something else just as manly? The girls, too, would be impressed. It was just the break I needed.

This paragraph is important because it shows the main character:

Read the selection below and use it to answer questions 16-20

The Flowers by Alice Walker

It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these. The air held a keenness that made her nose twitch. The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws.

Myop carried a short, knobby stick. She struck out at random at chickens she liked, and worked out the beat of a song on the fence around the pigpen. She felt light and good in the warm sun. She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment,

Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family's sharecropper cabin, Myop walked along the fence till it ran into the stream made by the spring. Around the spring, where the family got drinking water, silver ferns and wildflowers grew. Along the shallow banks pigs rooted. Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water that silently rose and slid away down the stream.

She had explored the woods behind the house many times. Often, in late autumn, her mother took her to gather nuts among the fallen leaves. Today she made her own path, bouncing this way and that way, vaguely keeping an eye out for snakes. She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns and leaves, an armful of strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and a sweet suds bush full of the brown, fragrant buds.

By twelve o'clock, her arms laden with sprigs of her findings, she was a mile or more from home. She had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep.

Myop began to circle back to the house, back to the peacefulness of the morning. It was then she stepped smack into his eyes. Her heel became lodged in the broken ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly, unafraid, to free herself. It was only when she saw his naked grin that she gave a little yelp of surprise.

He had been a tall man. From feet to neck covered a long space. His head lay beside him. When she pushed back the leaves and layers of earth and debris Myop saw that he'd had large white teeth, all of them cracked or broken, long fingers, and very big bones. All his clothes had rotted away except some threads of blue denim from his overalls. The buckles of the overall had turned green.

Myop gazed around the spot with interest. Very near where she'd stepped into the head was a wild pink rose. As she picked it to add to her bundle she noticed a raised mound, a ring, around the rose's root. It was the rotted remains of a noose, a bit of shredding plowline, now blending benignly into the soil. Around an overhanging limb of a great spreading oak clung another piece. Frayed, rotted, bleached, and frazzled--barely there--but spinning restlessly in the breeze. Myop laid down her flowers.

And the summer was over.

From this story, we can infer that:


From the story above, an example of evidence from the story is:

From the line in the story, "Myop gazed around the spot with interest," we can infer that Myop might be:

The selection from the story, The Flowers , that reads, "By twelve o'clock, her arms laden with sprigs of her findings, she was a mile or more from home. She had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep," is a good example of:

Read the following passage that describes the important facts of the story, The Flower.

"Myop is a ten year old girl wandering alone in the woods. She often wanders away from the family farm. Sometimes she gathers across with her mother. Today she is gathering flowers. Myop was about to go home but she stepped on the jaw of a dead man's skeleton by accident. She was surprised by this and laid her flowers on the ground."

This passage is an example of:

A summary:

An open-ended question:

The story, the Flowers, is about a young girl named Myop and her loss of innocence. The story begins with her walking through the woods as she usually does on a summer day. Things turn strange as the woods seem dark and gloomy and finally Myop ends up stepping on a dead mans head and getting her heel stuck in his jawbone.
I relate to this story because I once had a summer like this. My Tia and I were very close. She actually raised me more than my mother. One day she went to the grocery store to buy a cake mix to make for my birthday celebration, and she tragically was hit by a car. I remember feeling like my birthday was ruined, just like the author leads us to believe that Myop did not enjoy the rest of her summer by the last line of the story that reads, "The summer was over". I don't think the author meant it was the last day of summer vacation, I think that line indicates how Myop felt about the rest of the summer, just as I felt my birthday was over. We can also conclude that the title, The Flowers, indicates that when she dropped the flowers upon discovering the corpse, she lost her joy and even her innocence. This is what leads me to believe that she lost her innocence-- the symbolism of the flowers.

This passage is an example of:

This line from the passage in question 21 is an example of which of the following:

The story, the Flowers, is about a young girl named Myop and her loss of innocence.

Myop ends up stepping on a dead mans head and getting her heel stuck in his jawbone.

This line is an example of:

From the passage, can we conclude that the writer used his or her schema to write about the story The Flowers in the passage in question 21?